Improving standard cabin bed comfort - self inflating airbed

[colshandy]

Realise there are plenty of old threads on this but wondered if anyone has tried a self inflating mattress up top. I don't find the standard foam mattress too comfy so was thinking of trying something like this to top it up:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Double-Self-Inf ... g+mattress

Anyone else tried this and any thoughts?

Thanks

[dobby]

How would it cope with the hatch?

[colshandy]

Yeah guessing it would need to be unrolled when up top just prior to light out....

Maybe too much of a faff?

Any easy/cheap top up alternative ideas welcome

[dobby]

Our kids used to sleep up there and we used single self inflating ones on top of the foam mattress, I did see a different sort of mattress with filled tubes based on a Thai design

[cmm303]

Self inflating mattresses, especially thicker ones, take a bit of work to deflate them. Double size would be too cumbersome, and impossible for any "comfort exits" in the night. I have slept on my own upstairs on a single lightweight Thermarest (expensive!) and that could just about be stood on its side to allow the hatch to be opened for a quick exit without any deflating.

[pamannec]

We sleep on 2 single self inflating mattresses in the roof, easier to manage than a double. We have always been very comfortable on them.